Chinese spyware?

[Landingz1]

Is it?

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maybe

[Grim]

Lol no

[Jisa]

Yes it is, like all Netease games. They make money out of the data they steal from your computer.

Now it's up to you if you care or not.

[AoD_lexandro]

No, literally a red herring to stop people trying the game.

[Zero-Three]

It's not though it has improperly installed analytic software (only tracks installs and uninstalls, it's a mobile game thing) which is annoying.

The privacy policy only collects the info they say they do depending on your local laws, so in America you don't have to give them everything they say like you would have to if you were living in china. The people who claimed to read the privacy policy didn't read the follow up to it, or just ignored it.

The game runs on UE5, so the optimization will either being hit or miss depending on your hardware, UE5 is notorious for hating 13th and 14th gen intel cpu's so thats why you'll see allot of the cryptominer fearmonger posts have their intel cpu running at the temperature of the sun's surface.

[AoD_lexandro]

What the people stating "cryptominer" keep forgetting is that crypto mining uses the GPU, not the CPU. So it does not even "compute" to pardon the pun.

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Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

What the people stating "cryptominer" keep forgetting is that crypto mining uses the GPU, not the CPU. So it does not even "compute" to pardon the pun.

They don't know what they're talking about at all and they don't even bother to educate themselves either. It's hilarious they'll continue to live in fear and post thread after thread of the same question even though their questions have been answered 100 times because every new thread bumps the old threads further and further away

[Ray]

I wonder the same and this ruin so much that someone say it is, some other say not.
Just because it coming from a new developer does not mean it is scam. How can big companies like steam and epic game store allow it then? Would assume they test and check whats uploaded into their stores?

[MelodicVoid]

I can't say for sure if it adds spyware but it does ♥♥♥♥ with registry keys and adds two startup programs without telling you. It also leaves behind over a gig of data even when you uninstall it. It also uses an ungodly amount of CPU, probably running all the ♥♥♥♥ it ads in the background. I assume however its designed to gather for advertising.

[Landingz1]

Originally posted by MelodicVoid:

I can't say for sure if it adds spyware but it does ♥♥♥♥ with registry keys and adds two startup programs without telling you. It also leaves behind over a gig of data even when you uninstall it. It also uses an ungodly amount of CPU, probably running all the ♥♥♥♥ it ads in the background. I assume however its designed to gather for advertising.

OK, I'm not installing that, thanks.

Since all traffic is encrypted nowadays, it's impossible to tell what information it sends to where. Do I have trust issues? Yes. But this is NetEase.

[SackBoyWAKI]

Originally posted by Ray:

I wonder the same and this ruin so much that someone say it is, some other say not.
Just because it coming from a new developer does not mean it is scam. How can big companies like steam and epic game store allow it then? Would assume they test and check whats uploaded into their stores?

Why would steam test every single game for you? Steam is all about making money. I don't think they really care until when things are blown out of proportion.
I'm not going to play the game, regardless if it is really a miner / spyware or not. And fyi, I do really find traces of weird application names left behind under the task manager startup after I uninstalled the game. The names are 1 and some kind of GUID. So up to you to believe the company and the developers.

[HUNGER HUNT KILLER]

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[Ray]

Originally posted by SackBoyWAKI:

Originally posted by Ray:

I wonder the same and this ruin so much that someone say it is, some other say not.
Just because it coming from a new developer does not mean it is scam. How can big companies like steam and epic game store allow it then? Would assume they test and check whats uploaded into their stores?

Why would steam test every single game for you? Steam is all about making money. I don't think they really care until when things are blown out of proportion.
I'm not going to play the game, regardless if it is really a miner / spyware or not. And fyi, I do really find traces of weird application names left behind under the task manager startup after I uninstalled the game. The names are 1 and some kind of GUID. So up to you to believe the company and the developers.

They should check every files and games before it published on their store and launcher for all user safety, otherwise it would be very unsafe to download anything from steam, just as bad as a pirate site.

The day before scam they took responsebility and refunded everyone.
I havent heard anyone talked about they have got downloaded virus or spyware on steam ever before.

[Lamiosa]

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

What the people stating "cryptominer" keep forgetting is that crypto mining uses the GPU, not the CPU. So it does not even "compute" to pardon the pun.

"Crypto Mining" is also often a bad excuse people actually have a crap system, not updated drivers/applications or their OS is very badly managed or infected by malware. It is easier to point to games or people who created them, than to keep your system clean and check stuff on your own side.

[AoD_lexandro]

Originally posted by Lamiosa:

Originally posted by AoD_lexandro:

What the people stating "cryptominer" keep forgetting is that crypto mining uses the GPU, not the CPU. So it does not even "compute" to pardon the pun.

"Crypto Mining" is also often a bad excuse people actually have a crap system, not updated drivers/applications or their OS is very badly managed or infected by malware. It is easier to point to games or people who created them, than to keep your system clean and check stuff on your own side.

Indeed. A long while back, I got caught out by a mining trojan that was doing the rounds after it was embedded in a youtube video link. Spent three days with terrible performance on a brand new GPU, that I had installed the day of the video.

However I did not spew crap around the interwebs blaming the games for the crap performance. I knew there was something going on, I just had no idea it was a trojan miner as it was my first card that could mine.

Eventually got a wicked strong anti-malware program from a friend that found it and ripped it out of my system. Never fell for that one again.